First Look at 'Caravans of Gold' at the Smithsonian: Digital Exhibition Opening

Video by the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art

In the face of the ongoing pandemic, the opening of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African Art presentation of the exhibition Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange Across Medieval Saharan Africa became an interactive, multi-media experience -- featuring a tour of the exhibition as well as welcoming remarks from partners and dignitaries in Morocco, Mali, and Nigeria, as well as the U.S.